Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 5

Somewhere in the early part of the eighteenth century, when Nur Mahomed Kalhoro was ruler of Sind, he had as jamadar or headman of his grass-cutters a certain Murad, known as Murad Ganjo or Murad the Bald.

Who acts: Sind · What happens: be, have, know · To what, where: Nur ruler, certain Murad

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 had	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 part	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Somewhere	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 century	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 century	det
8	eighteenth	eighteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 century	amod
9	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ruler	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 ruler	advmod
12	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ruler	compound
13	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Nur	flat
14	Kalhoro	Kalhoro	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Nur	flat
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ruler	cop
16	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Sind	case
18	Sind	Sind	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ruler	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Somewhere	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 jamadar	case
23	jamadar	jamadar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 headman	cc
25	headman	headman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jamadar	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 cutters	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cutters	nmod:poss
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cutters	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 grass	punct
30	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 headman	nmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Murad	det
32	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Murad	amod
33	Murad	Murad	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 cutters	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 known	punct
35	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 Murad	acl
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 Ganjo	case
37	Murad	Murad	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Ganjo	compound
38	Ganjo	Ganjo	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 known	obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 Murad	cc
40	Murad	Murad	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Ganjo	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Bald	det
42	Bald	Bald	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Ganjo	flat
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sind not said here	Nur ruler	of Sind	tree rules
2	have	past	Sind		as jamadar or headman of Sind's grass cutters a certain Murad; somewhere property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	know	participle		a certain Murad not said here	as Murad Ganjo or Murad	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ganjo=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 5

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 5